A host welcomes guests with betel leaves on the veranda of the village house

Gemi GedaraThe village house

  • Pottery
  • Weaving
  • Cooking

Gemi Gedara means "village house": a wattle-and-daub home on the shore, and the resort's promise to its neighbours.

Through the doorway of the village house to the lawn by the lake

Come in

  • Gemi Gedara
  • Local makers
Guests on a mat in the village house being served rice and curry on banana leaves
Village lunch

Rice and curryOn a banana leaf

  • Wood fireCooked over
  • StoneGround sambol
Crafts

Made by handLearn from the village

Pottery
Pottery
Palm weaving
Palm weaving
Handloom
Handloom
Spice grinding
Spice grinding
Photographs

The village housePeople of Bolagala

A village cook and a guest
A village cook and a guest
At the potter’s wheel
At the potter’s wheel
Hands at work
Hands at work
The bullock cart
The bullock cart
Opening a coconut
Opening a coconut
Off by bullock cart
Off by bullock cart

Meet the villageAsk reservations

  • 20 min from CMB
  • Check-in 14:00
  • Desk 24 h
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